Social Capital and Health

295 Pages·2008·2.566 MB·English

by  Ichiro Kawachi MD, PhD, S.V. Subramanian PhD, Daniel Kim MD, MPH, MSc (auth.), Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim (eds.)

Social Capital and Health

Social Capital and Health
Edited by
Ichiro Kawachi
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
S.V. Subramanian
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Daniel Kim
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ichiro Kawachi S.V. Subramanian
Department of Society, Human Department of Society, Human
Development and Health Developmnt, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health Harvard School of Public Health
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Daniel Kim
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Harvard School of Public Health
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Acknowledgments
Professor Trudy Harpham (chapter 3) would like to thank her mother, Constance
Harpham, for enabling so many good things in life to happen.
The authors of chapter 2 (Cynthia Lakon, Dionne Godette and John Hipp)
acknowledge the support provided in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) grant number DA16094 administered through the Transdisciplinary
Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center (TPRC) at the University of Southern
California. The chapter was also supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Scholars in Health Disparities Program at the Harvard School of Public Health
and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant number
P60AA013759–02s2 administered through the Boston University Youth Alcohol
Prevention Center. Finally, the authors would also like to express their gratitude to
Dr. Tom Valente.
Richard Carpiano authored chapter 5 while he was a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Some of the empirical findings detailed within are drawn from a study supported
through a pilot grant from the University of Wisconsin Health & Society Scholars
Program. Quantitative findings are based on data from the Los Angeles Family
and Neighborhood Survey, which is funded by a grant R01 HD35944 from the
United States National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to
RAND in Santa Monica, California. He also wishes to thank Stephanie Robert for
helpful comments, as well as many colleagues who have helped to facilitate the
theoretical and empirical studies detailed here.
The research described in chapter 7 (the economic approach to studying cooper-
ation and trust) was funded by the National Science Foundation (SES-0094800)
and the Schroeder Center for Health Care Policy at the Thomas Jefferson Program
in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Lisa Anderson and Jennifer
Mellor would like to thank Jeff Milyo for valuable comments on their work.
Astier Almedom (chapter 9) was supported by the Henry R. Luce Program in
Science and Humanitarianism at Tufts University.
Kathleen Cagney and Ming Wen (chapter 11) would like to thank their
colleague, Dr. Christopher Browning (Ohio State University). Ming Wen thanks
her mother, Hua Wen, for her support.
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vi Acknowledgments
Vish Viswanath (chapter 12) would like to acknowledge the assistance of
Shoba Ramanadhan on his chapter.
Ichiro Kawachi acknowledges the generous support of the MacArthur Network
on Socioeconomic Status and Health, and the always helpful advice of his
colleagues in the Network: Nancy Adler, Teresa Seeman, Bruce McEwen, Sheldon
Cohen, Mark Cullen, Ana Diez Roux, David Williams, Karen Matthews, Michael
Marmot, and Judith Stewart.
S V Subramanian would like to acknowledge the support of the National Institutes
of Health via a Career Development Award (NHLBI 1 K25 HL081275). He also
thanks his wife, Nithya, and two children, Maya and Swara, and his mother. He
dedicates this effort of his to his father.
Daniel Kim wishes to thank his parents, Sung Gyum Kim and Hae Ja Kim, for
their enduring support.
Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1. Social Capital and Health: A Decade
of Progress and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, and Daniel Kim
PART I MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
Chapter 2. Measurement of Individual Social Capital: Questions,
Instruments, and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Martin van der Gaag and Martin Webber
Chapter 3. The Measurement of Community Social Capital
Through Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Trudy Harpham
Chapter 4. Network-Based Approaches for Measuring Social Capital . . . 63
Cynthia M. Lakon, Dionne C. Godette, and John R. Hipp
Chapter 5. Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health:
What Can Bourdieu offer for Understanding
Mechanisms Linking Social Capital to Health? . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Richard M. Carpiano
Chapter 6. Social Capital and Public Health: Qualitative
and Ethnographic Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Rob Whitley
Chapter 7. The Economic Approach to Cooperation and Trust: Lessons
for the Study of Social Capital and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Lisa R. Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor
PART II EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
Chapter 8. Social Capital and Physical Health: A Systematic
Review of the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Daniel Kim, S.V. Subramanian, and Ichiro Kawachi
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Chapter 9. Social Capital and Mental Health: An Updated
Interdisciplinary Review of Primary Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Astier M. Almedom and Douglas Glandon
Chapter 10. Social Capital and Health-Related Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Martin Lindström
Chapter 11. Social Capital and Aging-Related Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Kathleen A. Cagney and Ming Wen
Chapter 12. Social Capital and Health Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
K. Viswanath
Chapter 13. Disaster Preparedness and Social Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Howard K. Koh and Rebecca O. Cadigan
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
List of Contributors
Astier M. Almedom, PhD, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Lisa R. Anderson. PhD, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
Rebecca O. Cadigan, MS, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Kathleen A. Cagney, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada.
Douglas Glandon, PhD, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Dionne C. Godette, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Trudy Harpham, PhD, London South Bank University, London, U.K.
John R. Hipp, MS, PhD, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Daniel Kim, MD, MPH, MSc, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, FACP, Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston, MA.
Cynthia M. Lakon, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, University
of Southern California, Alhambra, CA.
Martin Lindström, PhD, Malmö University Hospital/Lund University,
Malmö, Sweden.
Jennifer M. Mellor, PhD, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
S.V. Subramanian, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Martin Van Der Gaag, PhD, Department of Public Administration and
Communication Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
K. Viswanath, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School ofPublic
Health, Boston, MA.
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